Poor HD Playback with Sage service enabled.

[camus]

When I have sage enabled my HD playback really starts to studder, both 720p and 1080i.

These playback fine in VMR9 with FSE when service is disabled. Overlay playsback fine with service enabled.

Is there any other step or trick to get this to work with service enabled?

I just turned it on while sage was running, I had forgotten I disabled service a while back do to the fact that I rarely if ever close sage on this PC.

[popechild]

Originally Posted by camus

When I have sage enabled my HD playback really starts to studder, both 720p and 1080i.

These playback fine in VMR9 with FSE when service is disabled. Overlay playsback fine with service enabled.

Is there any other step or trick to get this to work with service enabled?

I just turned it on while sage was running, I had forgotten I disabled service a while back do to the fact that I rarely if ever close sage on this PC.

I'm not sure if this will do anything for you or not, but if you're saying that you started the service while Sage was running, I'd try shutting everything down (even the computer, why not...) and then restart and don't start Sage until the service is started. You should disable the "Start Sage on startup" setting in Sage before doing this. Since Sage uses different config files depending on whether or not you're using the service, I'm not sure what starting the service while Sage is open would do, but I doubt it'd be anything good.

[camus]

I actually tried that. Thanks though.

What I thought was weird, it may be completely normal, is after starting sage service the first time I open Sage I have to click through the setup as if it was a new install, now all the settings were the same, but I just had to click through the steps.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by camus

I actually tried that. Thanks though.

What I thought was weird, it may be completely normal, is after starting sage service the first time I open Sage I have to click through the setup as if it was a new install, now all the settings were the same, but I just had to click through the steps.

That is normal. The GUI was started as a client for the first time and the sageclient.properties file indicated that you had not run the setup wizard yet.

Aloha,
Mike

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by camus

What I thought was weird, it may be completely normal, is after starting sage service the first time I open Sage I have to click through the setup as if it was a new install, now all the settings were the same, but I just had to click through the steps.

Yes, is normal. Sage maintains 2 sets of .properties files for Sage, depending on how you are using it. Sage.properties is the main file, used when Sage is unsed in "normal" mode.

It is also used to configure the service portion of Sage when used in SageService mode. When used in SageService mode, the User interface portion of Sage is configured via the sageclient.properties file. The first time it is used, it must be configured, and that is why you saw the wizard that one time.

[lotusvball]

I am also having a horrible time with the GUI now that I started sageservice running. Before I enabled the service I was only getting mild inconveniences. I tried the service so if I had to restart the GUI my recordings wouldn't stop. Now I am getting the sage symbol quite bit and sluggish performance. I am using overlay with no 3d acceleration.

[camus]

Thanks for the input about the configuration files.

I went ahead and restarted service, I give everything sometime to start on restart or coming out of standby before starting Sage, it seems to help, also it seems to playback better with a little buffer, especially with the 1080i content.